| Director & Writer: Jinglu Ji
| Composers: Zen Lu / Salil Bhayani / Muxo
| Color, 28′, 2020

– A Story of Fractured Maternal Bonds and the Paradox of Shame​​

Hairdryerexplores the rupture of a mother-daughter relationship and the twisted love a mother offers—detached, cowardly, and self-destructive—as she grapples with the conflict between justice and shame. The titular “hair dryer” and “ice” symbolize the muted ways these two women communicate love, desire, and need, while also embodying a mother’s final act of sacrifice, a daughter’s self-destructive narcissism, and the inescapable entanglement of their fates.

The film seeks to dissect the psyche of a traditional woman controlled by “shame,” trapped in a gray zone between suspected sexual abuse and romantic ambiguity. Through surreal, Kafkaesque imagery, it externalizes her subconscious struggles—a mother’s internal war waged through domestic objects and fragmented narratives.